Food Packaging

http://www.teachengineering.org/view_lesson.php?url=collection/duk_/lessons/duk_foodpackage_music_less/duk_foodpackage_music_less.xmllessontext/xmlFood PackagingEngineering K-Ph.D. Program, chemical changesdesignfoodmarketingpackagingphase changephysical changesphysical propertiesBoiling pointMelting pointPhase changeSolubility

This lesson focuses on how food packages are designed and made. Students will learn three of the main functions of a food package. They will learn what is necessary of the design and materials of a package to keep food clean, protect or aid in the physical and chemical changes that can take place in a food, and identify a food appealingly. Then, in the associated activity, the students will have the opportunity to become packaging engineers by designing and building their own food package for a particular type of food.

There is a whole industry devoted to packaging engineering and this industry is expanding as more and more products are created. Packaging engineers have to focus on all the components that the students will focus on in this exercise which include research, design, production, marketing, and analysis. Identify four functions of a food package. Explain how each food package design works. Identify the chemical and physical changes different types of materials prevent or facilitate. Explain what a food packaging engineer does. 30TeachEngineering.orgChloe Mawerhttp://www.teachengineering.org/collection/duk_/lessons/duk_foodpackage_music_less/food_packaging_materials.pdfhttp://www.teachengineering.org/collection/duk_/lessons/duk_foodpackage_music_less/food_packaging_materials.docAmerican Management Association. Packaging Division. Packaging for Retail Impact, with Specific Applications to the Dairy, Meat, Candy, and Baking Industries. New York: American Management Association, 1965. S1028437North_CarolinaScience2.03 Evaluate technological designs for: • Application of scientific principles.66S102843BNorth_CarolinaScience2.04 Apply tenets of technological design to make informed consumer decisions about: • Products.66S10284D2North_CarolinaScience2.03 Evaluate technological designs for: • Application of scientific principles.77S10284D6North_CarolinaScience2.04 Apply tenets of technological design to make informed consumer decisions about: • Products.77S1028556North_CarolinaScience2.03 Evaluate technological designs for: • Application of scientific principles.88S102855ANorth_CarolinaScience2.04 Apply tenets of technological design to make informed consumer decisions about: • Products.88United StatesCopyright 2012 - Engineering K-Ph.D. Program, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Universityhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2008-09-267Teacher